An early adding machine, c. 1890, invented by William Seward Burroughs, grandfather of the beat writer. National Museum of American History Today every phone is a calculator, but in the late 1800s, ...
As part of All Things Considered's series on now-obsolete sounds, listeners recall fond memories of the old mechanical adding machine. We asked listeners to send sounds from older technologies, things ...
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